Northgate

The Doctor’s Advocate™.

A New York firm representing a small number of seasoned physicians for a select set of leading hospitals and groups. Bespoke representation and permanent placement. Personal, from first call to signed offer. We work where the medicine matters.

We represent the physician.

Most firms in this category work for the hospital. They are paid by the buyer to place someone fast. We invert that. Northgate™ works for the physician, who is the rarer asset and the one whose career carries the longest tail.

The work is bespoke representation and permanent placement. Not locum tenens. Not contract. Not interim. A partner leads the conversation from the first private call to the signed offer, and your name does not leave this office without your written sign-off.

We represent physicians across the arc of their careers, from mid-career specialists to department chairs, service-line directors, and academic medical leadership.

The first conversation is private. There is no obligation on either side.

Where we work.

The institutions that engage the firm for physician searches. The list runs from quaternary academic centers to private groups, and every room on it has hired through us before or will again.

  • i Academic Medical Centers
  • ii Integrated Health Systems
  • iii Faculty Practice Plans
  • iv Multi-Specialty Groups
  • v Quaternary Care Institutions
  • vi Children’s Hospitals
  • vii Cancer Centers
  • viii Hospital Boards & Trustees

What we practice.

Everything the firm takes on arrives as one of these engagements. Each is personal, runs in confidence, and moves on the search’s own clock.

i
Permanent Search
The core practice. Confidential, personally led searches for mid-career specialists, department chairs, service-line directors, and academic medical leadership. Each engagement is bespoke; none are accelerated to fit a quarterly target.
ii
Leadership Assessment
Structured evaluation of candidates for senior medical leadership roles. Used during active searches to surface fit beyond credentials, and engaged stand-alone by institutions assessing internal succession candidates.
iii
Succession Planning
Multi-year advisory engagements for hospital departments and academic divisions facing leadership transitions. Internal pipeline development, candidate review, and external benchmarking before a chair seat opens.
iv
Board & Trustee Advisory
Composition guidance for hospital and health-system boards seeking physician trustees. Confidential introductions to candidates whose clinical authority matches the governance need.

Partner. Advocate. Path.

i

Partner

One partner, through the whole search. The partner who pitches the search is the partner running it. The person calling candidates is the person who knows your priorities, your culture, and the conversations you have already turned down. No handoff. No rotating cast.

ii

Advocate

A search begins with what you actually want. Not what is available. The terms that matter, the call structure, the protected time, the geography for your spouse’s career, the partnership track, we surface those in the first private conversation, not the fifth.

iii

Path

The right next role, not the next role. We accept a handful of mandates each year. We will lose a placement before we will put a physician somewhere they will regret in two years. The first conversation is private. There is no obligation on either side.

The fields we work in.

The disciplines where we spend most of our hours. If your work sits adjacent to this list, write anyway. The door is the same.

I Cardiology Interventional, Electrophysiology, Structural, AHF II Orthopedic Surgery Spine, Sports, Joint Replacement, Hand III Dermatology Medical, Mohs, Dermatopathology, Cosmetic IV Gastroenterology IBD, Hepatology, Advanced Endoscopy V Neurosurgery Spine, Functional, Cerebrovascular, Tumor VI Plastic Surgery Reconstructive, Microvascular, Aesthetic, Hand VII Radiation Oncology Proton, SBRT/SRS, Brachytherapy, CNS VIII Otolaryngology (ENT) Head & Neck Onc, Otology, Rhinology, Facial Plastics IX Ophthalmology Retina, Glaucoma, Cornea, Oculoplastics X Medical Leadership Chairs, Service Lines, CMOs, Division Heads

When you are ready to make a move,
you need the right people in your corner.

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